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Monday, 31 December 2012

52 Journals finished

This seemed like a good day to look back over the year and photograph all my 52 Journal Quilts together! Easier said than done as it involved the floor, a variety of ladders and 2 cameras. Apart from levitating from the ceiling, a feat that is beyond me, there was no way to photograph them head on so all the resulting photographs have awful converging parallels. I've cropped the best one and show it here but sadly because of the cropping I lost my camera exit data so on the blip today the background stayed in too, thus not producing a great photograph but nevertheless encapsulating the entire year in one picture.

I will be writing about this project at some stage in the not too distant future (next year in fact!) but I'm not quite ready for that task at the moment. I need to sit down with pen and paper (how very old fashioned that sounds!) in order to gather my thoughts and reflections and once I'm done I will share it here.

In the meantime I will admit that when I saw them altogether on the floor I felt a strong pull to repeat the process again next year but I will resist. However at least once a month a journal quilt will come to be as a result of the challenges on the Sketchbook Challenge site so look out for those!

I've just added the picture above because one of my fellow blippers (Earthdreamer) offered to straighten and clean-up this picture for me and he did a marvellous job. Wish I knew as much about Photoshop as he does. If you're reading this, thanks Bob! And he is a fabulous photographer too!

Seeing them all together is a good look at the beauty of them again and enjoy them all again. The variety is mind bogling but they look great together. What a lot of hours for you and a lot of enjoyment/inspiration for me. Terrific way to end the year and start a new one. Happy New Year to you both.

Wow Frieda quite the accomplishment to get them all in one shot LOL! I have visions of you hanging from the ceiling trying to get them all to fit....look forward to seeing more great art from you in 2013. All the best for the new year. Hugs across the big pond. J

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I am an award winning artist mainly working in textiles and mixed media, whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally,and has won many prizes including winning the Scottish Quilt Championship in 1998, the European Quilt Championship in 2006 and the British Quilt and Stitch Village in 2015. My work has also won prizes for hand workmanship, computer design, art quilting and embellishment. I entered the world of mixed media around 2004 and my Artist Trading Card (ATC) Enduring, Unending won Best of Show in the House of Cards exhibition, Columbus, Ohio, 2005. I love art journalling and at the moment I'm an monthly Guest Designer for Stencilgirl Products. My art has been published in a wide variety of magazines and books both here in the U.K. and abroad.I love photography and have uploaded a daily picture to the Blipfoto site for the last 6.5 years. In 2012 I completed my self set task of making one Journal Quilt every week in the 52 Journals Project and they were exhibited in a very successful show in Peebles in 2014. I'm a full-time studio artist.

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